In 1471, as the great courts of Europe vie for his wealth and genius, Nicholas vander Poele faces the ultimate competition when his wife, with whom he has been at odds since their wedding night, vies for control of their mutual destiny.
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The sixth volume in the popular The House of Niccolo series, this vivid novel of the 15th century centers on Nicholas vander Poele who, in 1471, is acclaimed by all the great courts of Europe, but whose personal life is tumultuous. He and his passionate rival--his wife--embark o…
In 1471, as the great courts of Europe vie for his wealth and genius, Nicholas vander Poele faces the ultimate competition when his wife, with whom he has been at odds since their wedding night, vies for control of their mutual destiny.
Als sich Falko, der Sohn der Wandehure, bei einem Turnier erbitterte Feinde macht, schickt ihn der Fürstbischof von Würzburg mit seiner Nichte Elisabeth nach Rom. Zwar kann Falko zunächst der Versuchung widerstehen, die Schöne zu verführen, stürzt sich jedoch in Rom in eine Affä…
Described as 'a golden age of pathogens', the long fifteenth century was notable for a series of international, national and regional epidemics that had a profound effect upon the fabric of society. The impact of pestilence upon the literary, religious, social and political life…
Essays address plague and disease in the fifteenth century, as manifested throughout Europe.
Described as 'a golden age of pathogens', the long fifteenth century was notable for a series of international, national and regional epidemics that had a profound effect upon the fabric of society. The impact of pestilence upon the literary, religious, social and political life…
While music from medieval and early-modern Europe has long been an object of digitally and computationally inflected musicological research, such efforts have tended to focus either on issues of musical style or on the publication of primary sources such as manuscript images, ma…
Sarasins and Franks examines the ways in which European Christians and Mediterranean Muslims portrayed one another in purportedly learned works dealing with geography and ethnography, as well as in popular works of fiction and non-fiction. Using Edward Said's concept of the Othe…
The thesis presents a first edition and English translation of the Battalname (Battalname), an anonymous work of Old Ottoman literature. The manuscript used as a basis for the present edition is the earliest known manuscript dated AD 1436-7. It was established that it is itself …
With the exception of three isolated settings of "In exitu Israel," no polyphonic settings of psalms survive until around 1480. In the period 1480-1500 no fewer than four collections of Vespers psalms appeared, preserving 108 unique settings of polyphonic psalms. These psalms re…
Alfonso de la Torre's Vision Deleytable, an allegorico-didactic fable and the only extant primer of philosophy in Spanish from the 15th century, offers a complex witness to an important feature in Spanish religious history: the belated impact of Medieval Aristotelianism on the r…
The historian of Southeast Asian Buddhism faces many questions regarding Buddhist identity. Using the case study of Arakan (western Burma), two critical questions are pursued in this dissertation: why did Theravada Buddhism emerge as a religious identity for the majority of Arak…
The present study addresses the fundamental question of how a legal idea of private immovable property emerged and developed in Northeastern Russia. In particular, this work focuses on the development of land ownership laws in the Russian principalities during the era of politic…
This dissertation analyzes the development and play of tarot cards (carte da trionfi) in fifteenth-century Northern Italy, beginning with their origins in playing card decks imported from the Islamic East, then moving to the popularity of tarot decks at the courts of Milan and F…
This study shows medieval writers transforming animal fable, twelfth century to Robert Henryson, with comparisons to bestiary. It discusses innovators in social satire and in witty freedom with meanings. Their moralizations for traditional stories provide test cases for modern t…